"What do I do now?" Marinette asked. Tikki put the book down on the floor as Tikki turned the pages.
"Hold on...let's see..." Tikki stared, her eyes failing her. "Here." As she pointed to the bookmarked page of the Miraculous book.
It was a black, green, and red book that looked hundreds, maybe even thousands of years old. Too delicate to touch, Marinette was afraid it would shatter. Even looking at Tikki, Marinette saw her covered in dirt and grime; around her eyes dark and clouded with exhaustion. She cradled Tikki, feeding her a lemon bar.
"Thank you Tikki...Plagg, can you translate this?" Marinette pointed to the ancient writing. Plagg floated over the book reading it. Marinette glance over at Chat, writhing in pain as he clutched the side of the mattress torn under his hands. She wanted to hold him, but she needed to be strong and figure this out before he...he-
"Hang in there Chat...I'm going to help you." Marinette told him, holding his hand tightly, shaking the dreadful thoughts.
"OK! Akuma poison is a substance that grows into a parasite after extended period of time after being affected. The causes are usually exposure to akuma fluid directly and cannot be passed to another by the carrier. This leads to mood swings, severe pain, hallucinations, nightmares, outbursts, schizophrenia, comatose, and eventually death. The victim goes through these symptoms have prolonged exposure to this poison." Plagg quickly translated.
"However, there is a cure. All akuma poisoning can be removed by one: secret power exposed by Miraculous users when transformed."
"Secret power?" Marinette said. Tikki nodded.
"Your secret power isn't your Lucky Charm, it's far more powerful and much more difficult to cast unless it was severely needed. You can't consciously summon it. It's...hidden." Tikki explained.
Plagg read on, "Two, the original of the source is completely destroyed along with the existence of the poison."
Tikki told Marinette, "That akuma we fought ...you never cured it with your miraculous. That's why Chat is still ill. Everything else was fixed Marinette. But this manifestation... I haven't seen since the very first generations of the Miraculous users. It only comes in times of great chaos and danger to come soon. Whatever Hawkmoth is planning-"
"This is a bigger problem than the akuma poison..." Marinette said as she got up.
"Wait! There's more! The third cure to the akuma poison is the blood sacrifice of the Miraculous user or a loved one. Their blood must quench the thirst of the parasite and it will poison it. The victim may fall ill due to the blood sacrificed, but also rid of the poison instantly. This will result to discomfort until the victim falls to unconsciousness and later recovery." Plagg stated.
"Blood sacrifice?!" Marinette said out loud.
"This blood sacrifice has been used more often for most cases of akuma poisoning. It's...more so vampirism. Usually the victim do leave the curers a bit anemic but the side effects to this cure is less harmful and the cure has worked positively." Tikki explained, now rubbing the grime off her cheek.
"I..." Marinette couldn't decide, until she heard Chat howl in pain and cringe. "What do I need to do?" She had no time to choose, but already knew that Tikki knows what's best. She trusted her kwami.
"Let Chat smell your blood. The parasite will feed from the blood shortly. It would be best if we transformed." Tikki told Plagg. "Did you want to Marinette?"
Marinette didn't believe for a second after all that had happen, Chat would believe that Ladybug came to save him. Not after Marinette fed him, let him sleep in her bed, comfort her with his gentle gestures and acts of kindness. In fact, with everything that lead to now, it would only raise the growing suspicion that Chat might figure out she was Ladybug after all.
Marinette shook her head, "Ladybug wasn't here this time. Just me Tikki, little 'ole Marinette." She thought, "It might be better this way". She knelt by Chat that thrashed in his sleep. The towel was loose and ready to fly off. Plagg was barely holding it down.
Marinette knelt by Chat's ear and whispered a plea in hope she would get through him in those horrible dreams.
"Please transform Chat It wouldn't be right to see you right? Not like this, not when you're sick. It's me... it's Marinette. Please...Just this once." She whispered against the towel.
Once she said that, Chat had stilled, and she could see his clothes transformed into his suit. He grabbed the towel from his face, blinking his eyes several times. She could see one of his eyes almost completely black and his breath was shallow, staring at the ceiling.
Marinette leaned over Chat and made him look at her face to face.
"I'm here...I'm right here Chat." She assured as she slowly hugged him, his lips pressed against her neck hesitantly, holding him there. She could feel his lips tremble, a graze of a canine tooth across her skin and she shivered. His hands clutched her back. He took a deep breath.
"My.. ..." He tried. He didn't want to do something to hurt her. But he was thirsty, for some of her blood. It was disgusting but quenching. He could hear her pulse as his lips pressed softly against her jugular.
"Do it Chat." She said in his ear desperately. He slowly opened his mouth, letting the parasite in him feed by latching his lips and suckling the flesh from Marinette's neck. Then clamp down hard enough to puncture her vein and drink her blood.
Marinette cried sharply in pain when he bite through the flesh, but after that subsided it was overwhelming pleasure. She gasped, holding onto Chat tightly, her body unknowingly rolling into his harden, tensed torso as his hands roamed and his lips make sure no blood was wasted.
She fell back, unable to hold herself up and letting herself go. But at this moment she wish she could feel more to Chat than the strained spandex-leather suit around his hips, her body was soon weak and she felt spots all around her.
Chat's gulps were heard in the quiet little room and the thought of her blood going down his throat was enticing yet cannibalistic. Chat, with a shaky hand, traced a hand up her side and around her her back as he breathed hard against his lady. Marinette, with weakened efforts moved herself closer up to Chat, her thigh brushing something hard and throbbing through his suit. Chat growled as he drank and drank and drank, slowly and surely thrusting himself into her thigh.
"Chat..." Marinette slurred as her gripped slacken and suddenly he stopped drawing blood from her. His lips stained red with some smeared across his face. He stared down in realization of what he's done and held Marinette, cradling her head. Blood stained around his mouth like a raw feast and his dilated eyes returning normal.
"Mari...?" He let her nickname slip past his lips, too confused and guilty of what happened, "What...how you...what did I-" Chat said, his eyes wide and stared about him in horror. "I'm-"
"Don't be sorry..." Ladybug slurred as she passed out to the faint calling of Chat.
Waking up, she saw blackness and almost jolted.
"Chat?" She said in the darkness.
"He left..." Tikki said, mouth full of sweets. Marinette pulled the towel off her face and winced, her hand pressed against her neck. She felt two holes and a bit fatigued.
"Eat." Tikki said indicating the food by her. Without any hesitation, she did in silence.
"He was sorry..." Tikki faded. "But with what he been through, he won't remember being here...or what happened. The poison tends to knock out your memories after being cured."
Marinette swallowed, "But what if he does remember? What if ...he remembers who I am? I didn't even transformed earlier, and he looked at me and said I was Ladybug. You honestly think he won't remember?"
"He was still hallucinating..." Tikki said, unsure anymore honestly from what she seen on Chat's face, contorted with such confusion. She wouldn't tell Marinette that though, as she lied, "But, he's better now...the cure worked immediately after you fainted."
Marinette stared out the window, "If you didn't get back sooner...he would've died. Thank you, Tikki." She cradled the kwami in her hand.
"Plagg found me...I almost passed out." Tikki sat in Marinette's lap. "We have to be careful now. Hawkmoth is getting stronger."
"I know..." Marinette was worried. Then Tikki looked at her Ladybug in the eyes.
"You have to tell Chat who you are. Before it's too late." Tikki told her as Marinette.
"DAMN IT!" Hawkmoth sneered as he stars out into the moonlight of his dome.
"Chat Noir got away...the poison did not kill him." The shapeshifter changed into a tall dark man with glasses and a suit. The glasses glinted purple.
"I know that!" Hawkmoth snarled as he grabbed the shapeshifter. "They always get away, they always...ruin MY PLANS!"
Hawkmoth sighed through his nose, "It is not the end Ladybug and Chat Noir oh no. This is only a sliver of my greatest plan. Time is ticking. And yours is about to run out." He chuckled into a laughter.
See? Everything is good everything is okay!
Edit: I have fixed the error in the dialogue and changed some of the context so it's less confusing.